“…Notable taxonomic works on Indian Orthoptera were done by Kirby (1914), Hancock (1915), Uvarov ( , 1929, Hebard (1929), , Chopard (1969), Tandon (1976) and Bhowmik (1977Bhowmik ( , 1985. Many other significant works on Orthoptera were conducted in various states of India (Tandon and Shishodia, 1977;Vasanth, 1993;Tandon and Hazra, 1998;Shishodia, 1999Shishodia, , 2000Chitra et al, 2000;Shishodia and Kulkarni, 2002;Dey and Hazra, 2003;Thakur et al, 2004;Kulkarni and Shishodia, 2005;Senthilkumar et al, 2006;Senthilkumar, 2010;Usmani et al, 2010;Nayeem and Usmani, 2012;Akhtar and Usmani, 2014;Kumar and Usmani, 2015;Bhaskar et al, 2022). Significant studies on Orthopterans fauna of Kerala were done by Hazra (1986), Vasanth (1991), Shishodia and Kulakrni (2002), Priya and Naredran (2003), Prabakar and Radhakrishnan (2005), Bhaskar et al (2018Bhaskar et al ( , 2019, Meena et al (2021), Hiremath and Prathapan (2021) and Jaiswara et al (2021Jaiswara et al ( , 2022.…”